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2 Milk Production and Consumption
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Table 3.10 Average milk yield of species of cows and buffaloes in India
Breed Origin Milk yield (kg/year)
Village Commercial
farms
Indian cattle Sahiwal Punjab, Haryana, U.P, 1350 2100
(Bos indicus) Delhi, Bihar, M.P
Gir Gir forest areas of South 900 1600
Kathiawar
Tharparker Jodhpur, Kutch, 1660 2500
Jaisalmer
Red Sindhi Punjab, Haryana, 1100 1900
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Kerala, Orissa
Kankrej Gujarat 1300 3600
Ongole Nellore, Krishna, 1500
Godavari, Guntur (AP)
Hariana Karnal, Hisar, Gurgaon 1140 - 4500
(Haryana), Delhi,
western M.P
Foreign cattle Holstein Friesian Holland 7200-9000
(Bos taurus) Jersey Island of Jersey (Great 5000-8000
Britain)
Brown Swiss Switzerland 5250
Ayrshire Scotland 4840
Crossbred Karan Fries NDRI, Karnal 3700 (8338)*
cattle Karan Swiss NDRI, Karnal 3355 (7096)*
Sunandini Kerala 2900
Frieswal PDC, Meerut 2970
Murrah Haryana, Delhi Punjab 1560
Jaffarabadi Kathiawar (Gujarat) 1800-2700
Surti Gujarat 1700-2500
Nagpuri Nagpur, Wardha, Akola, 1030-1500
Amravathi, Yeotmal
Buffalo (Maharastra)
* Best yield at NDRI (Karnal) in
parentheses
(Source: ICAR
(1978); Banerjee (1999); Annual Reports, NDRI (Karnal);
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India Development Gateway (Nov, 2008 data)
Selected Readings
Banerjee, J.C. 1999. A Textbook of Animal Husbandry. 8th edn. Oxford and IBH Publishing
Company Pvt. Ltd., Bombay.
Bhasin, N.R. 2008. President�s Desk. Indian Dairyman. 60(12):3-4.
http://faostat.fao.org/site/569/default.aspx#ancor accessed on January 15, 2011.
ICAR. 1978. Handbook of Animal Husbandry, New Delhi
IDF. 2007. International Dairy Federation Bulletin. p. 423.
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